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Biden administration to allow 25,000 asylum-seekers in Mexico into US

The Biden administration on Friday announced plans for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings to be allowed into the United States

Biden seeks more foreign workers while skirting H-1B visa uproar

Companies like Google, Apple and Facebook have for years pressed to increase the number of tech workers allowed into the US

Biden administration delivers early win for H4 spouses of H1B workers

After years on cliff edge, the H4 community is relieved. "We've had enough," said an Atlanta resident who has a valid H4 employment authorisation document

Judge bars US President Joe Biden from enforcing 100-day deportation ban

US District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining order sought by Texas

Veteran activists campaign for President Biden's immigration reform

Immigrant rights activists energised by a new Democratic administration and majorities on Capitol Hill

Joe Biden takes sweeping Day One action on energy, climate, immigration

The new president is also ordering the wearing of masks and social distancing in all federal buildings

Biden's immigration bill proposes to scrap country cap, to help IT in India

Joe Biden, hours after being sworn in as the 46th President, will send a comprehensive immigration bill to Congress

US: Joe Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path for immigrants on Day 1

The bill is set to be introduced after Biden takes the oath of office Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the legislation and granted anonymity to discuss it.

Google backs Biden's immigration efforts, pays fees of 500 Dreamers

Google said that it would donate $250,000 grants as application fees of about 500 young immigrants seeking employment under the US government program- the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Reversing Trump immigration policies will take months, says Joe Biden

Joe Biden offered a slower timeline than he promised on the campaign trail and one that may rile advocates pushing for speedy action on the issue

Influential US lawmakers urge Biden to reverse Trump's immigration policies

A federal court early this month ordered full reinstatement of the Obama-era programme that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the US as minors from deportation

Increasing visa hurdles

Doing business in the US is getting harder

Federal Court rejects Trump's order to exclude undocumented from census

A three-judge panel unanimously said President Trump lacked the authority to remove noncitizens from census counts used to allot House seats

Indian national arrested in $21 mn H-1B visa fraud, looks at 10-yr sentence

Arrested on Thursday, 48-year-old Ashish Sawhney allegedly used four corporations to orchestrate the improper submission of fraudulent applications for H-1B specialty-occupation work visas

Biden promises H-1B reform, to eliminate country quota for Green Cards

Companies depend on H-1B to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China

New policy on immigrants already does harm, US appeals court says

A judge correctly struck down a new Department of Homeland Security rule that went into effect earlier this year denying green cards to legal immigrants who use Medicaid

Donald Trump says he will soon sign new merit-based immigration act

"We are going to work on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals because we want to make people happy and I will tell you even conservative Republicans want to see something happen with DACA," he said

US asks foreign students to leave the country if classes go online

Harvard is among the first universities that has shifted completely to online teaching till a vaccine is found to tackle Covid-19.

Trump blocks H1B visa; businesses say decision will hurt US recovery

Trump also blocked those entering on H-2B seasonal worker visas, which are used by landscapers and other industries

US immigration fraud: 90 more students, mostly Indians, held from fake univ

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE in March arrested 161 students from the fake university established by it in the US state of Michigan